A string of fighter cuts and apparent hostility between UFC and Strikeforce parent company Zuffa, LLC and Golden Glory is not the result of hardball negotiating but, as Dana White puts it, where the money goes.

The UFC president today said that his company won’t do business with the Holland-based fight team because they insist on routing fighter purses through the team’s management and not the individual fighter.

“We don’t want that,” the UFC president said. “It’s not the way we do business. It’s not how it works in the U.S. You don’t pay the manager and the manager pays the fighter. You pay the fighter, and the fighter pays the manager.”

White pointed to an absence of Golden Glory fighters seen in the octagon since the towering Semmy Schilt, who went 1-1 for the promotion in 2001 and later found success in K-1 kickboxing.

Golden Glory heavyweight John Olav Einemo broke the apparent freeze this past June when he fought Dave Herman at UFC 131. The pair won “Fight of the Night” honors in a back and forth contest that Herman won by second-round TKO.

On Wednesday, Einemo, as well as former Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Marloes Coenen and Strikeforce heavyweight Valentijn Overeem, were served their walking papers due to recent losses, according to Golden Glory trainer Martin de Jong (The trainer also promotes MMA and kickboxing events under the team moniker).

In an interview with MMAjunkie.com, de Jong called the cuts “unfair” and hoped a solution could be found. White, however, said there is no middle ground.

“When Einemo fought in the UFC, we did it our way – the way that it has to be done,” White said. “They refuse to do business any other way. We can’t do business like that.”

The cuts followed a major firing this past Friday when news broke that Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem had been stripped of his title and released from his contract.

Multiple sources have said the cut arose when Golden Glory attempted to hustle a better contract from Zuffa for Overeem, who was due to serve the final fight of his Strikeforce contract in the semifinals of the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix before withdrawing due to a toe injury.

Golden Glory reps have expressed confusion at the release and said Overeem was simply injured and unable to compete at 100 percent. The heavyweight released a video on the day of his release that showed he suffered a fractured rib that may have occurred in his quarterfinal win over Fabricio Werdum this past June.

White, though, said it’s much simpler than that. Golden Glory simply refused to bend on cutting future checks to its fighters.

“In a lot of places in the world, they can do business like that,” he said. “It’s not a big deal to the promoters. We can’t do it. It’s not right. It’s not the right way to do it.

“The reality is we were trying to work out new deals with these guys, and they won’t do it. They said, ‘You absolutely can’t pay the fighters.’ Like I said, it’s pretty simple. Looking back, the last guy that fought in the UFC was Semmy Schilt that was a Golden Glory guy. There’s a reason for that.”

Sergei Kharitonov is the sole Golden Glory fighter on the Zuffa roster as he is competing in the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix. He faces Josh Barnett on Sept. 10 in Cincinnati in the tournament semifinals.

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